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12 October 2017 18:25:39 Articles

The 2018 World Cup in Russia will require new stadia, and one of them is in Kaliningrad. The 35,000-capacity stadium is still under construction and we saw everywhere signs (in red) showing “Russia 2018”. While Kaliningrad is often described as an exclave of Russia, it is in fact a semi-exclave, which means that it is separated from the rest of the country by other states (Lithuania and Poland) and yet has its own coastline (on the Baltic Sea). The city and the province are named after Mikhail Kalinin (1875-1946), a Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet bureaucrat. Full article on Kaliningrad – Russia’s exclave

NATO member Poland will build observation towers along its land border with Russia’s exclave of Kaliningrad, according to Polish news agency PAP.
The six towers ranging in height from 35 to 50 metres will ensure round-the-clock CCTV monitoring of the 200-kilometre border with Kaliningrad. Russia is said to be stationing short-range Iskander missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads in the region of Kaliningrad.
PAP quoted a Polish border guard service official as saying they are currently in the test phase of the technical installations of the towers and plan to have them fully operational by June. Then, video information from the towers will be streamed to Polish border control posts.
The EU’s External Borders Fund will provide 75% of the estimated cost of the project of over PLN 14 M (EUR 3.4 M). Poland’s border with Russia is part of the external border of the European Union. The construction of the towers comes at a time of mounting tensions between NATO and Russia over the conflict in Ukraine.
Kaliningrad, wedged between Poland to the south and Lithuania to the north and east, is home to Russia’s Baltic Fleet.

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia plans to station state-of-the art missiles to its westernmost Baltic exclave and deploy nuclear-capable bombers to Crimea as part of massive war games intended to showcase the nation's resurgent military power amid bitter tensions with the West over Ukraine....

Russia plans to station state-of-the art missiles to its westernmost Baltic exclave and deploy nuclear-capable bombers to Crimea as part of massive war games intended to showcase the nation's resurgent military power amid bitter tensions with the West over Ukraine. The Iskander missiles will be sent to the Kaliningrad region that borders NATO members Poland and Lithuania as part of ongoing maneuvers, said a Defense Ministry official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to comment on the issue publicly. The exercises range from the Arctic to the Pacific Ocean and involve tens of thousands of troops.Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting of the...

Russia has stopped issuing short-term, three-day visas for visits to the exclave of Kaliningrad.
Moscow suspended the visas as of January 1, although local officials had asked that the "experiment," ...

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